Sentence examples for perform contest from inspiring English sources

Contest behavior is energetically costly (Grantner and Taborsky 1998; Dijkstra et al. 2012), and average costs of female contests may therefore exceed those of male contests unless metabolic differentiation between the sexes allows females to perform contest behaviors more efficiently than males (compare with Dijkstra et al. 2012).

From the mid-1980's to the early-1990's, Ernie Contri had a virtual lock on the annual Greenwich Village Perform as Your Favorite Performer contest.

11 Connor et al. suggested that if trials could be performed on contest winners or by randomizing recipients by use of unclaimed public funds, the results could inform policy deliberations on taxes, public benefits or entitlements, and minimum wage levels.

She performed "Sea of Flags" during the second semi-final in Denmark, making her the first solo artist from outside Europe to perform on the contest as a guest.

They're also asked to perform in lewd contests.

Neither Katniss nor the author ever really questions the moral underpinnings of the games themselves -- the idea of children being forced to perform in gladiator contests and fighting to the death, for the amusement of the citizenry.

The present study does not test whether contestants perform differently in intra- and intersexual contests.

That same year she won a contest to perform a duet with Canadian icon Shania Twain before an audience of 20,000.

Hanna Na, a 15-year-old violinist from Great Neck who took first place in this year's contest, will perform with the symphony during a free concert at 3 p.m. today in the Van Nostrand Theater at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood.

Twenty-six natincludingluding most of NATO, large swaths of the former Warsaw Pact and Israel, sent their top pop stars to this, the 48th annual Eurovision contest, to perform previously unpublished songs.

"The more obvious answer for the landslide of votes from Germany, the penultimate country to vote for Spain, which tipped the result Massiel's way is - rather boringly - she went on a really popular German TV show the week before the contest to perform her song.